Considerazioni sullo zoonimo ΚΑΣΤΩΡ nel Papiro di Artemidoro (V6 Gallazzi/Kramer/Settis)

• Vespa, Marco ^[1]
  1. [1] University of Fribourg

     University of Fribourg

     Friburgo, Suiza

     
• Localización: Archiv für papyrus-forschung und verwandte gebiete, ISSN 0066-6459, Band 66, Nº. 1, 2020, págs. 1-10
• Idioma: italiano
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• Resumen

  • The Artemidorus Papyrus has a legend on the verso (V6) that bears the usual word for ‘beaver’ in ancient Greek, i.e. κάστωρ. This does not correspond to the drawing of the animal, which looks more like a dog. Through an analysis of various zoological texts, this article solves the difficulty by considering the other zoonym of the beaver, which was κυνοπόταμος, i.e. the ‘river dog’.